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I've just seen one of the best documentaries ever....

Horizon - Are You Good or Evil?

What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer.Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars - psychopathic killers.But there was a shock in store for one of these scientists, Professor Jim Fallon, when he discovered that he had the profile of a psychopath. And the reason he didn't turn out to be a killer holds important lessons for all of us.We meet the scientist who believes he has found the moral molecule and the man who is using this new understanding to rewrite our ideas of crime and punishment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b014kj65/hd/Horizon_20112012_Are_You_Good_or_Evil/

First, Allah created the Light; then, by His Creative Power, He made all mortal beings. From the One Light, the entire universe welled up. So who is good, and who is bad? ||1|| (Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Ang 1349)

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Ive wondered about this too before. If someone kills another person, they may think it's alright to do so, but that means their brain wasn't set, so who are we really to punish them? God is the master judge, he decides what to do with us.

I'm not saying we shouldn't punish people, like someone doing beadbi should be beheaded, I'm just saying how can we decide how much punishment someone should get if we don't know what they're thinking?

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Good and bad are only concepts. The definition of "good" is only defined by the social environment from which the person is brought up in. For example if the human is brought up in a war-torn area, where he witnesses his village being brually murdered and constantly as he grows up he views the killing of other, it is in his nature that the concept of "good" must be to kill the murderers, whereas someone from a more peaceful area may say to that man "Forgive them for murdering your village, only more bad comes from fighting" ..

In the end, the ideal solution (where you truly have a free choice) is up to you the individual to craft your own concepts for "good" and "bad".

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